Staff Report ISD: Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) organized a session on "Disruptive Innovation." The session was aimed to support the talented leaders of the company to stay abreast with the latest research findings, technological discoveries and insights and sustain the technological leadership of PTCL.
The focal speaker of the session was Mark Zawacki, a USA based business strategist, board advisor, keynote speaker and Angel investor, in pursuance of its…Read More

Press Release: Intel Pakistan and Punjab Group of Colleges (PGC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to improve learning standards at PGC and its affiliate education institutions. Both parties will work together to further improve quality of teaching resources and provide opportunities to youth to excel by acquiring 21st century knowledge skills and bring about a social change in the rural far-flung areas of the country.
Under this initiative, Intel® Teach, Intel® ISEF, Intel…Read More

Press Release: Nuclear Medicine, Oncology and Radiotherapy Institute (NORI) Islamabad, organized its first symposium on Nanotheranostics on 5 May 2015. A new Era of Nanotechnology and a four day workshop on Applied Pharmacokinetics. President ECO Science Foundation Prof. Dr. Manzoor Hussain Soomro chaired the first session, "Nano Carriers are Medicines: Challanges, Dogmas and New Horizons." The session was also addressed by the initiator and former Chairman of National Commission on…Read More

Staff Report ISD: Bahria University, Islamabad recently hold its 13th convocation at Jinnah Convention Centre to confer degrees to Masters and undergraduate students. A total of 560 students were awarded the degrees. Pro-Chancellor of Bahria University, Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Muhammad Zakaullah NI (M) graced the occasion with his benign presence as chief guest.
In the welcome address, Vice Admiral (Rtd) Tanveer Faiz, Rector Bahria University greeted the students and their…Read More

Staff Report LHR: Warid Telecom, Pakistan’s largest and fastest growing LTE network, announced the launch of its LTE services in Murree. Having covered eight major cities, the company is aggressively working to expand its LTE footprint in Pakistan.
With the initiation of Warid LTE services in Murree, Warid Telecom is also bringing forth a free of charge SIM replacement offer for Warid consumers with LTE handsets. Moreover, all the new and existing customers will be entitled to 500 free…Read More

Staff Report ISD: First ever doctorate degree issued by PARC Institute of Advanced Studies in Agriculture (PIASA) was conferred to Sabir Hussain Shah. His area of specialization was Plant Genomics and Biotechnology for development of cold tolerant tomato plant. He has become the forerunner student to receive this degree from the institute. The panel of scientists of National Agriculture Research Center (NARC) evaluated his theses work which was successfully defended by Sabir Hussain Shah…Read More

Pakistani-American students team Roshni Ride is one step closer to making their idea for confronting the global refugee crisis into reality. Roshni Ride team is from Rutgers University won the Hult Prize last week. Young entrepreneurs behind Roshni Rides had vision for future transportation to empower refugees overseas. Last Saturday this team won the prestigious […]…Read
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Dr Talat Naseer Pasha is the incumbent VC of UVAS. He holds PhD. degree in Animal Nutrition from University of West Virginia, USA. Dr Talat has over 35 years of experience in academia, research and administration. He has supervised over 120 postgraduate students. He is an eminent researcher and has published over 80 research papers in internationally renowned journals. He has also won twelve international research grants for two projects.Prof. Pasha had been conferred Sitara-i-Imitiaz…Read
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Global warming is a sign of threat for the earth and its inhabitants. Concern about global warming has increased and many believe that the phenomenon will eventually pose a serious threat to people and their way of life. A gradual increase in the average temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere and its oceans is known as global warming due […]…Read
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THE INCLUSIVE picture of Pakistan’s higher education does not match with the global quality standards. The recent Times Higher Education (THE) World University Ranking shows that Pakistan’s higher education is declining in recent years. On the other hand, growth of enrollment in higher education is increasing with every coming year. Regrettably, standards of our higher […]…Read
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